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by bamfly 3y ago
100% of cases I'm aware of the police acting like someone's being ridiculous for thinking they'd bother to even run some plates captured in a video of a crime predate "defund", which I'm actually tepidly in fav
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by bamfly 3y ago
When's the last time you saw a pessimistic car salesman? Same thing. Now, a mechanic....
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by bamfly 3y ago
Such a weird direction to take it, total non-sequitur. It's like responding to concern about risks of nuclear war or bio-engineered pathogens with "pft, you can understand that tech, it's all in textbooks, it's just phys
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by bamfly 3y ago
It's really weird that we've normalized consuming huge amounts of what's effectively an exceptionally-sweet dessert drink with most non-fancy restaurant or fast-food meals. Shit made a lot more sense when standard serving s
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by bamfly 3y ago
I've never experienced the bad ones that want you to clean the place top-to-bottom. I believe they exist, but I've not seen it, and have been averaging probably 4ish AirBnB stays per year for several years (I'm posting from o
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by bamfly 3y ago
Hotels win for some intersection of short-duration-of-stay and low guest count (with the break-even point varying somewhat as both those figures vary) AirBnB wins for longer stays with more guests, or if you want to stay somewhere without h
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Further, is the curriculum at these schools that much better than everywhere else or is it more a factor of surrounding yourself with highly motivated peers that makes it better? I've watched the full set of lectures for a few cla
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by bamfly 3y ago
> The police didn't even want to bother trying to get footage from nearby cameras when I called back and noted the location of several nearby security cameras that might have picked up the vehicle. If it's any consolation, this
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by bamfly 3y ago
"It's aliens" is just about the least plausible explanation other than "god did it". I'm pretty sure several other sci-fi bullshit explanations are more likely than "aliens are real, have tech we couldn&
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Consider this - the flying saucer craze really took off right after the United States developed the atomic bomb - wouldn't such an event pique the interest of an advanced civilization? No? Why would it, any more so than what came
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by bamfly 3y ago
> There is enough evidence by now that in my opinion it is within the realm of possibility that we are being visited by alien intelligence. Nah. I'd wager it's more likely to be earthlings from an alternate reality or that time
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by bamfly 3y ago
> They killed the audio jack. That's pretty heinous. Yeah, this still sucks. It'll probably never stop being worse than having the jack. > And they removed the sim slot. ... this has been really nice? The new virtual-sim thi
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by bamfly 3y ago
I could never get it to work consistently enough to make it worth learning what it could do & making it part of my workflow. It got in the way more often than I triggered it on purpose, even when I was trying to give it a fair shot. On
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by bamfly 3y ago
Anyone maintaining their own backups as a cost-savings strategy must have found a much more efficient way to do it than I have. Plus value their time at $0/hr. And/or are doing it in a way that's guaranteed to lose much of th
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by bamfly 3y ago
I've been a pretty heavy Apple user since ~2011 and had to search to find out WTF this even is (TFA didn't give me enough info to determine what the point of it was).
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by bamfly 3y ago
There are allusions in open sources (e.g. the Afghanistan Papers—a series of interviews the government conducted to perform a "WTF went wrong" appraisal of the war in and occupation of Afghanistan, that has since been released to
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by bamfly 3y ago
99% of "software engineering" is about as much "engineering" as laying out and installing the plumbing for a house or smallish apartment building. To the extent that it's more challenging, it's mostly because w
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by bamfly 3y ago
... they gonna make it easier for US citizen remote tech workers to pursue PR status without having to find a Canadian employer first (and, so, take a big pay cut)? I'd love to move my family there and start paying our way-above-median
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by bamfly 3y ago
Yeah, our experience is something like: unmedicated << generic <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< name brand in terms of perceived effect. They
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by bamfly 3y ago
Yeah. The generics use a different ER mechanism, which is surely part of the problem, but others report issues with non-ER versions, too, presumably due either to purity/consistency issues or different filler material, so I doubt the E
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by bamfly 3y ago
I've rarely (... never?) retired a phone that was still usable enough to wipe it. Most could be repaired to a usable state, but at like 50% the cost of a new phone, so I just get a new one instead (since by then there are usually a bun
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by bamfly 3y ago
Can confirm, the generic for the adhd med a couple of my kids take is super obviously not even close to as good as the real thing. Took us a little bit to put 2 and 2 together the first time we got that instead of the "real thing&quo
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by bamfly 3y ago
That's my understanding, yes. There was so much old-growth wood (in North America, anyway) that practically all lumber produced was excellent by modern standards. No reason to bother with young or otherwise low-quality trees. I notic
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by bamfly 3y ago
I owned a house built around that time, for a while, but not a kit house. The lumber they used for structural members (huge, 8x10ish boards, very long, all around where the foundation met the house; joists; et c) or for other parts that wer
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by bamfly 3y ago
Buster Keaton's short film "One Week" is based around a kit house of this sort. Like a lot of silent era comedy, it's still pretty damn funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0FMxZBmO4
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by bamfly 3y ago
Found the ergonomics of rc-update and other commands exceptionally decent, and consistent enough that I could usually guess the correct invocation even if I hadn't used it in a while. Never saw it break or tie itself in knots (which, o
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by bamfly 3y ago
Everything social progressives in the US are currently for (at least, all the parts that are at all distinct from what the median American is for), and methods they use in an effort to move toward their goals. We could go around and around
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by bamfly 3y ago
His followup: > The essay I'm currently writing is, among other things, about how to have original ideas. And while it never mentions wokeness explicitly, some of the techniques I describe I might never have considered without the e
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by bamfly 3y ago
I've used several Linux init systems over the years. OpenRC is the only one I've ever liked using. Not sure why it never seemed to catch on with any of the major distros, even before Systemd made itself nigh-unavoidable.
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by bamfly 3y ago
1) Have jobs that pay well, and do a pretty good job of saving for years and years. There are several reasons that, despite the prominence of young founders in pop culture, successful founders in fact tend to be quite a bit older—that'

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